Privacy

Last updated · October 2026

The short version: Detour collects almost nothing. There are no accounts, no sign-in, no analytics and no cross-site tracking. Here's the whole picture.

Your stats stay in your browser

Streaks, personal bests (including your best Recall round for each color count, your Recall daily streak and today's best daily round, your Lights Out daily streak and fewest moves for each grid size, your Spaced Out daily streak and fastest solve for each grid size, your best Minesweeper time for each difficulty along with the difficulty you played last, your Final Call daily streak, how many days you've played and cleared, the shortest ride you've cleared and today's calls, your Nonogram daily streak and fastest solve for each grid size, your Four-Way Stop daily streak and the most levels you've cleared in a daily run, your Scenic Route daily streak, fastest solve, clean-route count and today's route, your Subdivision daily streak, fastest solve, clean-solve count and today's patches, your Mini Sudoku daily streak, fastest daily solve, fastest free play solve for each difficulty, the difficulty you played last and today's board, your Long Haul daily streak, how many days you've played, the longest word you've reached, how many runs you've cleared, your fewest guesses in a full clear and today's guesses, your Wayword daily streak, best daily total, how many levels you've finished and how many at par, and today's word chains, your Crossroads daily streak, how many days you've solved, how many of them without a hint, how many hints you've used and today's found words, how many online Turf War and Dots and Boxes games you've won, lost and drawn, how many Battleship games you've won and lost against each bot and online, how many local Battleship games each player has won on this device, and how many Minesweeper co-op games you've won and lost), and game settings are saved in your browser's localStorage and never leave your device. We can't see them. Clearing your browser's site data resets them, and there's no way to get them back (we never had a copy).

Online rooms

When you create or join an online room, the room lives on our server so everyone in it sees the same game. A room holds its code, the board and the moves or pages played (in a Recall race, the round each player has reached), the display name you typed if the game asks for one, and a random ID your browser made up so the room knows which seat is yours. That goes for every game with rooms: Wiki Race, Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe, Recall, Turf War, Dots and Boxes, Battleship and Minesweeper's co-op. A Battleship room holds where each of you placed your ships and every shot fired. Your ships are sent to your own browser only: your opponent's gets the result of each shot, and a ship's position once it has been sunk. A co-op room holds the board the two of you share (where the mines are, what has been revealed and where the flags stand) and when the game started and ended. While you play, where your pointer is on the board is passed to your partner over a live connection to Appwrite, so they can see where you are. Only the latest position is held, and only until you leave. Appwrite takes that from signed-in visitors only, so your browser is signed in as an anonymous one: a random ID with no name, email or password, remembered in your browser's localStorage. Where that isn't possible, the room passes along which cell your pointer is on instead, and keeps only the latest one. Co-op asks for no name. This data is deleted automatically 24 hours after the last activity. Your browser also remembers the name you typed, so you don't have to type it again.

Feedback

When you send feedback from the footer, we store your message and the time it arrived. Nothing else goes with it: no name, no email, and nothing that ties it to you or your browser. That also means we have no way to reply.

Wikipedia

Wiki Race loads articles straight from Wikipedia's public API, so your browser talks to Wikipedia directly while you race. That traffic is covered by the Wikimedia privacy policy.

Hosting

The site is hosted on Appwrite, which keeps short-lived server logs (such as IP addresses) to run and protect the service. See Appwrite's privacy policy.

To keep spam and floods out, our server also counts requests per IP address for a short time. It stores a scrambled code in place of the address itself, next to a count, and deletes both within about a day.

Advertising

Detour doesn't run ads or ad tracking today. If that changes, we'll update this page first and only load ads or ad-related scripts after any consent required by law has been given. See the disclaimer for how ads would work on the site.

What we don't do

No analytics, no ad trackers, nothing that follows you across other sites, and no cookies set by us. We don't know who you are, and we'd like to keep it that way.